There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
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